ravinhood
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LOL well we do seem to have a lot of different preferences here, maybe they will make something for everyone eventually. ;) What I'd like to see is a grand scale campaign game simular to RTW and then use the minatures for all the battles. With ALLLLLL those different units and types from RTW in the game, but, with TS's AI, which is better since 1.1 as I get deeper into the games civil war. I'd rather see provinces though for movement and control rather than individual tiles like RTW tried to do. It turned into a horrible system for the AI to work with, while it did rather well when it was provinces like Shogun and MTW. This Tin Soldiers series is the best of the rest as far as my vote goes. It's such a welcome relief from same ole same ole WWII titles. I put it right up there with Spartan/Gates of Troy for fun an entertainment value. Hope KOIOS can pull it off someday and make a more grand scale strategic/tactical game on a larger scale than Caesar even. That would be the ultimate of ultimates for me. ;) (Still looking for that random scenario generator out of them. heh) Now, as far as Civil Wargames, going back to the mid 80's to present, from SSI's Gettysburg, Antietam, Shilo, Chickamauga, No Greater Glory, then to SSG's 3 or 4 volume series in the early 90's, up to Sid Meiers Gettysburg/Antietam, and all of HPS's Civil War titles, and Civil War Generals I & II, Age of Rifles, Blue Smoke/Grey Skies, that grand scale ACW (think they are doing a 2nd or 3rd edition of this now, North & South (funniest one of them all to play) yeah I'd say I have enough Civil War type titles. ;) Napoleanic games? Back to the 80's again with Battles of Napoleon, then came Waterloo for the Amiga, then there was the first real time action game, can't recall the name right off, was really the first minatureized type battle of the battle of Waterloo though (Oh now I remember "Field of Glory", then once again SSG did at least one Napoleonic volume game I have it somewhere. lol and of course Matrixgames and HPS have both done significant service on the Napoleonics series, Talonsofts Waterloo and 3 others in that series, real time Austerlitz/Waterloo, then recently Imperial Glory, soon Crown for Glory, Empire in Arms. So, yeah I'd say I have enough Napoleonic games as well and enough coming. But, Ancients titles, except for Centurion Defender of Rome and Carthage long ago made in the early 90's, there really was nothing else out there until recently with KOIOS and (cough) RTW and Spartan/Gates of Troy which I think is the best of their series, Legion and Chariots of War I didn't care for. Same for Medieval type games. I just fell feet over heels for MTW when I got it, for a straight month I played nothing else. Best title Creative Assembly did as far as I'm concerned. I hope they stay in the Ancients or at least move up gradually to the ACW/Napoleonics type versions. I always had an interest in minatures warfare type games, but, I couldn't paint worth crap, so lost interest in the whole thing. I still like to watch others play out large battles on huge tables though. It's really the only thing that will pull me away most often from counters and hexes. ;)
< Message edited by ravinhood -- 6/2/2005 1:36:37 AM >
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